Coupling and thermal equilibrium in general-covariant systems
Goffredo Chirco, Hal M. Haggard, Carlo Rovelli
TL;DR
This paper advances the understanding of statistical mechanics in general-covariant systems by exploring thermal equilibrium, coupling, and gauge relations, proposing a covariant formulation of thermalization.
Contribution
It introduces a covariant approach to statistical mechanics, analyzing equilibrium and coupling in parametrized systems within a gauge-invariant framework.
Findings
Thermalization corresponds to zero information flux in covariant systems.
A relation between thermal equilibrium and gauge invariance is established.
The study provides a foundation for a fully covariant statistical mechanics theory.
Abstract
A fully general-covariant formulation of statistical mechanics is still lacking. We take a step toward this theory by studying the meaning of statistical equilibrium for coupled, parametrized systems. We discuss how to couple parametrized systems. We express the thermalization hypothesis in a general-covariant context. This takes the form of vanishing of information flux. An interesting relation emerges between thermal equilibrium and gauge.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.